The book attempts to make a historical enquiry into the origin of the seven goddesses both as a collective entity and as individual divinities, different stages in the evolution and development of their worship, regional ramifications in their cult, typological variations in their iconography by Agamic injuctions and the nature of esoteric and Tantrik practices associated with them. This is the first detailed work on the subject based on hundreds of in situ ...
The cults of Ganesa and Karttikeya have been dealt with by competent scholars ever since serious studies on Indian religion, art and iconography began but still the need for a proper systematization of existing knowledge on the subject has been acutely felt in recent years. This is largely because of the regional and chronological aspects of the studies made. This book is a modest attempt at fulfilling this need. This seeks to summarise the existing state of our ...